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Admetula

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Admetula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Admetula
Cossmann, 1889
Type species
† Cancellaria evulsa Solander in Brander, 1766
Species

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Admetula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Admetula include:

Species brought into synonymy
Taxon inquirendum
  • Admetula malacitana Vera-Peláez & Muñiz-Solis, 1995

References

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  • Landau B., Petit R. & Marquet R. (2006). The early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 12. Cancellarioidea. Palaeontos. 9: 61-101.
  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp
  • Verhecken A. (2007) Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean; ZOOSYSTEMA • 2007 • 29 (2) © Publications Scientifi ques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.
  • Verhecken A. (2011) The Cancellariidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 and Aurora 2007 deep sea cruises in the Philippines, with description of six new species (Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea). Vita Malacologica 9: 1-60
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